QUETTA, March 4: A railway employee was injured in a rocket attack on Saturday on a Zahedan-Quetta goods train near Nushki, some 170kms from here,. According to railway authorities, rockets were fired upon the train from nearby mountains between Ahmedwal and Nushki. The rocket attack damaged the trian’s locomotive and injured the engine’s fireman.

“They fired three rockets that damaged the train’s locomotive, a brake van and rest of the vans,” an official of the Railway Control in Quetta said. Gunmen also fired upon the train with automatic weapons. He was identified as Mohammad Hussain and sent to railway hospital Quetta.

Railway officials said that the goods train remained stranded at the Nushki railway station.